A review by grace_alice
Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

emotional inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Personally, I did not like this book and it was incredibly disappointing. This was my first time reading a WLW book and I was excited to find it at my bookstore as I struggle to find LGBTQIA+ books that aren’t MLM. Unfortunately, it reads like a Wattpad fanfiction and one of the characters, Morgan, was completely irritating throughout the book. She was completely self-entitled and arrogant but this all gets brushed over because she does things to better the LGBTQIA+ community. Just because you help a community doesn’t mean you have the right to try and dictate how much people express themselves.
These flaws are “resolved” at the end of the book, but the way she outted Ruby and had the audacity to say she didn’t was the last straw. Also, the fact that this was just brushed over, is inappropriate especially for a young adult book. Teens shouldn’t read this and think it is okay. It can be extremely dangerous and harmful to the person being outted and should be taken seriously.
Ruby I felt was a much better character and by the end of the book I was just waiting for her chapters to I could hear someone else’s thoughts other than Morgan’s. 
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